Enel GI&N rural electrification solutions and implementations

Abstract

Enel Global Infrastructure and Networks (Enel GI&N), a business division of Enel group, is managing, through local distribution system operators (DSOs), more than 25 million customers in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Peru. Moreover, Enel GI&N is facing the challenge of bringing access to electricity to the 100% of the population; for that reason, it is working on microgrid (MG) solutions for the sites that are not connected or hard to connect to an electricity network. These solutions are having or are expected to have an important impact in the DSO engineering also because they requires additional and innovative components, traditionally non-present in the DSO catalogue. In this paper the Enel GI&N solutions for rural electrifications are described also by presenting some field implementations.